THis Week in Congress

[KeithD]

With Trump, all roads lead back to the Kremlin.

 

[JackLuis]

Meanwhile! AOC teaches about Corp-Fuckery

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Scientists Over To Congress To Dish About Exxon F*cking The Planet

In testimony before Congress last week, two former scientists for Exxon explained in some detail how the company had initially supported their research into climate change through the 1970s. But in the early 1980s, Exxon (it merged with Mobil in 1999) decided that instead of changing its business -- which was tentatively moving into cleaner forms of energy, like advanced battery research and CO2 reduction -- it would instead suppress its own scientists' work and heavily fund outfits that cast doubt on the science of global warming. It was the first time the scientists, geochemist Ed Garvey and physicist Martin Hoffert, had a chance to testify to Congress about what's already one of the greatest missed opportunities in human history.

If Exxon hadn't decided to divest its clean energy holdings, Hoffert said, the transition to clean energy that's needed to prevent the most catastrophic effects of climate change could have started 40 years ago, with lower costs and far less human tragedy than such a transition will now.

 

[JackLuis]

Nancy Pelosi Releases Her Rules For Impeachment Radicals!

The text for the House's impeachment resolution is here, and it's GREAT. Next time we start bitching about Nancy Pelosi moving too slow, please roll it up like a newspaper and smack us across the nose with it. "Nervous" and "Shifty" have cut the GOP off at the knees and put the kibosh on members of their own party who might turn the public hearings into a Benghazi-style circus. No more power struggles, no more distractions. House Intel (HPSCI) Chair Adam Schiff will be driving this car for the long trip to Jerry Nadler's house at the Judiciary Committee, so buckle your seatbelts and don't even think about touching that radio. Get in, loser, we're going IMPEACHING!

Tomorrow the House will vote on a resolution empowering Schiff to schedule public and private witness hearings. This is a serious process, and eight hours of alternating, five-minute rounds of red and blue congresspeople screaming at the witnesses and mugging for the camera will not cut it. We need real lawyers laying out the evidence without dramatics, and so the hearings will open with extended questioning by Chairman Schiff, Ranking Member Devin Nunes, or a HPSCI staffer. Yes, Schiff versus Nunes is not a fair fight. And if the GOP wanted to avoid it, they could have moved the dumbest little cowpoke in Congress out of pole position on this committee. You pays your money, you takes your chances.

She's the Speaker and she makes the rules, bitches!

 

[JackLuis]

McConnell doesn’t address the substance in latest impeachment attack just hours after Trump says GOP is attacking the substance

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Republicans are starting to attack the substance of the impeachment allegations.

“Republicans are very unified and energized in our fight on the Impeachment Hoax with the Do Nothing Democrats, and now are starting to go after the Substance even more than the very infair Process [sic],” he tweeted.

Just hours after Trump’s tweet, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor to give an anti-impeachment speech. Contrary to Trump’s assertion, however, McConnell focused on the process and didn’t defend Trump on substance.

He can't argue the facts, so he bitches about the process, he has no control over.

Tough Shit Moscow Mitch!

 

[JackLuis]

US House advances bill imposing sanctions on Turkey over Syria

The bill, which may face obstacles in Senate, is latest rebuke over Trump's decision to pull troops from northeast Syria

Washington, DC - The United States House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved legislation aimed at imposing sanctions on Turkish military and government officials over Ankara's military operation against Kurdish forces in northeast Syria.

The 403-16 vote is the latest rebuke of Trump's decision to withdraw US forces from northeast Syria and leave Kurdish allies without military support as Turkey launched an operation in the area.

Somebody pissed off the House!

 

[JackLuis]

What the New Impeachment Vote Means for Trump’s Defenders

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Ever since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the beginning of an impeachment inquiry in September, congressional Republicans have complained that the process is opaque, unfair, and illegitimate. About 30 Republican House members even forced themselves into a deposition in a secure room being used for a hearing, possibly endangering national security, to prove a point about transparency and the rights of the accused. (Never mind that the rules by which the impeachment inquiry is proceeding were approved by the Republican-controlled House in 2015.)

This week, congressional Republicans may get their wish. The House is expected to vote as soon as Thursday on a measure that would give the imprimatur of the chamber to the impeachment proceedings already underway. In addition to codifying procedures for future hearings and subpoenas from the investigating committees, the resolution would allow transcripts from the private depositions to be released publicly and centralize all evidence in the Judiciary Committee (which usually has jurisdiction over impeachments). In a statement, Pelosi said that resolution would also lay out “due process rights” for the president, a reference to language in the resolution that instructs the Rules Committee to come up with procedures that “allow for the participation of the President and his Counsel.”

The new rules will allow the PeeResidents flunkies to embarrass themselves on C-Span in public!

 

[JackLuis]

House formally votes to go forward with Trump impeachment hearings over GOP objections

The Democratic-controlled House on Thursday voted along party-lines to formalize the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.

The House of Representatives voted 232-196 to move the impeachment inquiry into the public eye.

Now they've done it!

House Rethuglicunts will now see themselves on C-Span humiliating themselves in their attempts to deflect the substance of the facts instead of whining about substance! The RNC will spend "Millions, Millions, I say," to try to patch the holes in the Trumptanic.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump is straight-up bribing GOP senators to back him against impeachment: report

According to a report from Politico, President Donald Trump is attempting to regain the full support of GOP lawmakers facing tough re-election prospects in 2020 by showering them with cash in the hopes of keeping them on his side with an impeachment vote likely.

If appeals to Rethuglican ideals doesn't work, Trumpski goes "Old School" with Bribery!

 

[JackLuis]

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough tosses Kevin McCarthy’s words back in his face after he rails against Trump’s impeachment

“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough fired a shot across the bow of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Thursday morning for throwing his full support behind Donald Trump just moments before the House voted 232-196 to go forward with impeachment proceedings against the president.

After McCarthy gave an impassioned speech on the House floor defending the embattled president, the MSNBC host was quick to remind him that he once told a closed-door meeting of Republicans that he believed Trump and a California Republican were on the payroll of the Kremlin.

As the Washington Post reported in 2016, McCarthy claimed, “‘There’s two people I think Putin pays: [Rep. Dana] Rohrabacher and Trump,’ McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, adding, “Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.”

With that in mind, Scarborough wrote, “The man who said Donald Trump was being paid off by Putin is now on the House floor defending the same man. What changed, Kevin?”

 

[JackLuis]

U.S. House recognizes Armenian genocide, backs Turkey sanctions

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to recognize the mass killings of Armenians a century ago as a genocide, a symbolic but historic vote instantly denounced by Turkey.

The Democratic-controlled House voted 405-11 in favor of a resolution asserting that it is U.S. policy to commemorate as genocide the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923. The Ottoman Empire was centered in present-day Turkey.

Democratic U.S. Representative Adam Schiff, whose California district is home to a large Armenian-American population, has sought passage of such legislation for 19 years. He urged support for the measure in an emotional House speech that referenced the Kurds.

“When we see the images of terrified Kurdish families in northern Syria, loading their possessions into cars or carts and fleeing their homes headed to nowhere except away from Turkish bombs and marauding militias, how can we say the crimes of a century ago are in the past?” he said.

“We cannot. We cannot pick and choose which crimes against humanity are convenient to speak about. We cannot cloak our support for human rights in euphemisms. We cannot be cowed into silence by a foreign power,” Schiff said.

SO Why did you let Darth Cheney get away with WAR CRIMES?

 

[JackLuis]

Gohmert invokes ‘guns’ and ‘civil war’ on House floor after Democrats vote to move forward with impeachment

“Never in the history of this country have we had such gross unfairness that one party would put armed guards with guns to prevent the duly authorized people from being able to hear the witnesses and see them for themselves,” the congressman griped.

“That’s not the kind of evidence that a coup should be based on,” Gohmert ranted. “If we’re going to have what they’re trying to legalize as a coup, we ought to have a right to see each of those witnesses.”

“It’s about to push this country to a civil war if they were to get their wishes,” Gohmert opined. “And if there’s one thing I don’t want to see in my lifetime, I don’t want to ever have participation in, it’s a civil war. Some historian, I don’t remember who, said, guns are only involved in the last phase of a civil war.”

And a few un-civil wars too, Louis. Who so calling for civil war? The ACLU, the MAD's, BLM, the NAACP, the Dems? No it's the Rethuglicunts who are raising this issue!